But have the fellow buy Litz's book and do some self study rather than debate it.

__________________“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such governments. …” Jefferson

Thanks to everyone who commented. It didnt seam right to me but he was convinced and so was another fellow. I didnt say anything more than I had never seen or heard anything like that before.

He is no doctor, lol just an avarage guy a pip fitter strongest man I have ever met he wasent being a dick at all just didnt seam right and I just met him so I didnt want to flat out say um gosh that sounds crazy before asking the combined intelegence of LRH.

The reason it doesn't flatten the base is because the pressure is just as great on the sides of the boattail as on the base. It you put a flat-nose, bore-size slug behind the bullet, the boattail would be flat as a pancake. That would be the case for a Berger VLD. Another bullet like a Barnes TTSX that's solid copper couldn't be flattened even with a slug behind.